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From: Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] qmail.eclass draft
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:51:19
Message-Id: f8elat$ht$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] qmail.eclass draft by Marius Mauch
1 >> - If I remember correctly, elog shouldn't be used for empty lines like
2 >> in qmail_supervise_config_notice. Use echo instead for them.
3 >
4 > You remember incorrectly (though I don't think I ever said anything
5 > about it). You should use elog/ewarn/... without arguments to separate
6 > different message items (with echo it might look better on the console
7 > during the build, but worse in the final log).
8 >
9 Is there anything technically wrong with
10
11 elog 'message A
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13 message B'
14
15 ..which is how we'd do a multi-line echo in bash? (I don't know how it
16 interacts with the log.)
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